Casino games have been popular throughout Europe for centuries, and Spain has played a part in the evolution of many of these games. If you’re looking to learn Spanish, you might wonder whether these games could be useful as language lessons, so let’s take a look and see.
Live Casino Games
If you decide to play live roulette for real money you’ll find many different versions of this classic game of chance. These include games with randomly applied multipliers and other features as well as eye-catching themes such as Age of the Gods and Jet Set Racing, so there’s a good deal of variety in this category just as there is in blackjack and baccarat.
All of these games are beamed out live from the developer’s studios, with a human dealer appearing directly on your screen, spinning the roulette wheel or handing out cards. The games are typically carried out in English in UK casinos, but some developers have created native-language games for players from other parts of the world.
An example comes from Pragmatic Play, who recently confirmed that they’ll be launching their first live roulette game in Spanish, with games to be played on a 24/7 basis. The presenters are all Spanish speakers based in the company’s Bucharest studio. Simply listening to the basic terms such as numbers and colors makes for a simple start, while chatting to the dealer and other players is a more advanced option.
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Set Everything to Spanish
Immersing yourself in a language is widely regarded as being the best way to learn it. Anyone from the UK who is planning to spend time in Spain might want to dive as deeply into this language as they can manage before leaving home. London offers for the best opportunities for immersing yourself in Spanish-speaking communities, with half of the UK’s quarter of a million Latin American immigrants living in the capital.
Alternatively, going online in Spanish is an easy option that can be carried out in casinos as well as on any other site. Simply set your browser to Spanish or look for the language setting on the site you enter. In this way, you’ll discover that roulette is called ruleta.
Blackjack is often simply called blackjack on Spanish sites, although it’s sometimes translated as veintiuna instead. The blackjack game called Spanish 21 is a variant of the game that received this name because it’s played with a Spanish deck of cards, which only has 48 cards than the 52 founds in English or French decks, rather than because it’s played in the Spanish language.
Slots, commonly known as tragamonedas, are easy to play in any language because of their simple gameplay. However, if you enter the paytable to find out more about the game you’ll discover the Spanish words used to describe all of the different features, such as free spins and multipliers.
Playing casino games with a Spanish twist doesn’t significantly alter the gameplay. If you’ve played these simple games of chance before then you should quickly pick up the key terms that you need to know to get started.
Main image source: “Madrid / Spain, Casino Gran Via at night” (CC BY 2.0) by wwwuppertal
